TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellect Biotechnology Ltd. (Nasdaq: APOP), a developer of a novel stem cell selection technology, announced that it has signed an agreement with the Hadassah Medical Center to conduct clinical trials on cancer patients in Cellect's ongoing Phase I/II study. The study at Hadassah will be conducted under Prof. Polina Stefenski, the Principal Investigator of the site at Hadassah. Furthermore, following the recently announced positive interim results in the Phase I/II clinical trial with the first group of patients treated at the Rambam Medical Center, Cellect received approval from the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) to escalate ApoGraft™ FasL protein dosage (Cellect's main active ingredient in ApoGraft™) to 25 ng/ml and enroll three additional patients for the clinical trial.

Dr. Shai Yarkoni, Cellect's CEO said, "Stem cells are the key raw material for the emergence of Cell Therapy into the 21st century as the new standard for well-being. We believe Cellect's innovative technology paves the way to make sure quality stem cells are available for mass usage on a global basis."

About Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy

Regenerative medicine is a novel approach using cells and tissues to replace or regenerate human cells, tissues or organs in a wide variety of medical indications. This could be achieved by either stimulating the body to use its own repair mechanisms to heal tissues or organs, or by growing tissues and organs in the laboratory and transplanting them into the patient.

Stem cells play a major role in the achievement of the extraordinary potential results in regenerative medicine. In cell therapies they can be injected to reconstitute the entire blood system in bone marrow transplantations. Alternatively, their injection can supply the necessary biologically active molecules to induce the patients' own cells to regain normal function, as used in immunomodulation therapy. In tissue engineering, where entire organs like the retina, bone, cartilage or the skin may be replaced, stem cells are the starting material for the growth of such tissues in the laboratory. Moreover, in tissue engineering an artificial system might be created by inducing cells to perform certain biochemical functions lost due to disease (e.g., artificial pancreas or liver).

Regenerative medicine using cellular therapy in combination with new technologies like tissue engineering and gene transfer can be used in a virtually unlimited number of indications. The most frequently used cells are hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) due to their capability to reproduce the entire blood system in blood cancer and hematological disorders. Mesenchymal stem cells, which have the capability to differentiate to a large number of tissue types like bone, cartilage, fat, heart muscle and more, are of growing importance with a large number of clinical trials ongoing. Potential applications of cell therapies include treating cancers, autoimmune disease, urinary problems and infectious disease, rebuilding damaged cartilage in joints, repairing spinal cord injuries, improving a weakened immune system, and helping patients with neurological disorders.

About Cellect Biotechnology Ltd.

Cellect Biotechnology (NASDAQ: APOP) has developed a breakthrough technology for the selection of stem cells from any given tissue that aims to improve a variety of stem cell-based therapies.

The Company's technology is expected to provide research, hospitals and pharma companies with the tools to rapidly isolate stem cells in quantity and quality allowing stem cell-based treatments and procedures in a wide variety of applications in regenerative medicine. The current clinical trial is aimed at bone marrow transplantations in cancer treatment.

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